Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 742 citations indexed

About

Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 742 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 5 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 4 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint's work include Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (8 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (5 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (4 papers). Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint is often cited by papers focused on Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications (8 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (5 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (4 papers). Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint's co-authors include Joseph A. Frank, Scott R. Burks, Neekita Jikaria, Bobbi K. Lewis, Farhan Qureshi, Blerta Milo, Saejeong Kim, Michele Bresler, Beat Werner and Anahita Rassi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint

18 papers receiving 739 citations

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Disrupting the blood–brain barrier by focused ultrasound induces sterile inflammation

2016 358 citations Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, Saejeong Kim et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint United States	11	465	208	123	110	90	19	742
Sarah Ironside Canada	7	373 0.8×	195 0.9×	96 0.8×	46 0.4×	58 0.6×	11	648
Farhan Qureshi United States	10	330 0.7×	176 0.8×	78 0.6×	82 0.7×	74 0.8×	39	666
Dallan McMahon Canada	11	677 1.5×	301 1.4×	212 1.7×	85 0.8×	97 1.1×	18	893
Christopher B. Pople Canada	12	400 0.9×	242 1.2×	64 0.5×	96 0.9×	52 0.6×	21	700
Dezhuang Ye United States	16	469 1.0×	216 1.0×	170 1.4×	56 0.5×	85 0.9×	32	725
Neekita Jikaria United States	9	336 0.7×	213 1.0×	89 0.7×	95 0.9×	74 0.8×	14	596
Manish Ranjan United States	6	308 0.7×	135 0.6×	64 0.5×	113 1.0×	77 0.9×	9	504
Jessica F. Jordão Canada	6	861 1.9×	468 2.3×	221 1.8×	170 1.5×	118 1.3×	7	1.1k
Colin M. Wilson United States	14	166 0.4×	103 0.5×	74 0.6×	78 0.7×	249 2.8×	27	836
Kelly Markham-Coultes Canada	8	340 0.7×	160 0.8×	69 0.6×	102 0.9×	71 0.8×	8	486

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19 of 19 papers shown

Kovacs‐Balint, Zsofia, Mar M. Sánchez, Arick Wang, et al.. (2024). The Development of Socially Directed Attention: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Infant Monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 36(12). 2742–2760.

Zimmerman, Matthew G., Mehul S. Suthar, Nils Schoof, et al.. (2023). Treatment with sofosbuvir attenuates the adverse neurodevelopmental consequences of Zika virus infection in infant rhesus macaques. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 381. 578148–578148. 7 indexed citations

Gunter, Chris, R. Alan Harris, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, et al.. (2022). Heritability of social behavioral phenotypes and preliminary associations with autism spectrum disorder risk genes in rhesus macaques: A whole exome sequencing study. Autism Research. 15(3). 447–463. 10 indexed citations

Siebert, Erin R., Elyse L. Morin, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, et al.. (2021). Long-Term Structural Effects of Early Life Stress on Reward and Emotion Regulation Neurocircuitry in Adolescence. Biological Psychiatry. 89(9). S275–S276. 1 indexed citations

Raper, Jessica, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, Maud Mavigner, et al.. (2020). Long-term alterations in brain and behavior after postnatal Zika virus infection in infant macaques. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2534–2534. 44 indexed citations

Godfrey, Jodi R., Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, Eric Feczko, et al.. (2020). Obesogenic diet-associated C-reactive protein predicts reduced central dopamine and corticostriatal functional connectivity in female rhesus monkeys. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 88. 166–173. 10 indexed citations

Tu, Tsang‐Wei, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, Georgios Z. Papadakis, et al.. (2020). Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MRI Evaluation on the Long-Term Effects of Pulsed Focused Ultrasound and Microbubbles Blood Brain Barrier Opening in the Rat. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 14. 908–908. 5 indexed citations

Sinharay, Sanhita, Tsang‐Wei Tu, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, et al.. (2019). In vivo imaging of sterile microglial activation in rat brain after disrupting the blood-brain barrier with pulsed focused ultrasound: [18F]DPA-714 PET study. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 16(1). 155–155. 47 indexed citations

Raper, Jessica, et al.. (2019). Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Amygdala Modulates Emotional Behavior Expression in Infant Rhesus Monkeys. eNeuro. 6(5). ENEURO.0360–19.2019. 30 indexed citations

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Kovacs‐Balint, Zsofia, Tsang‐Wei Tu, Farhan Qureshi, et al.. (2018). MRI and histological evaluation of pulsed focused ultrasound and microbubbles treatment effects in the brain. Theranostics. 8(17). 4837–4855. 58 indexed citations

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Godfrey, Jodi R., Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, Eric Feczko, et al.. (2018). Diet matters: Glucocorticoid-related neuroadaptations associated with calorie intake in female rhesus monkeys. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 91. 169–178. 15 indexed citations

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Kovacs‐Balint, Zsofia, Eric Feczko, Eric Earl, et al.. (2018). Early Developmental Trajectories of Functional Connectivity Along the Visual Pathways in Rhesus Monkeys. Cerebral Cortex. 29(8). 3514–3526. 18 indexed citations

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Kovacs‐Balint, Zsofia, Scott R. Burks, & Joseph A. Frank. (2017). Reply to Silburt et al.: Concerning sterile inflammation following focused ultrasound and microbubbles in the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(33). 15 indexed citations

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Bryant, L. Henry, Blerta Milo, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, et al.. (2016). Physicochemical characterization of ferumoxytol, heparin and protamine nanocomplexes for improved magnetic labeling of stem cells. Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine. 13(2). 503–513. 22 indexed citations

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Kovacs‐Balint, Zsofia, Saejeong Kim, Neekita Jikaria, et al.. (2016). Disrupting the blood–brain barrier by focused ultrasound induces sterile inflammation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(1). E75–E84. 358 indexed citations breakdown →

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Papadakis, Georgios, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, Tsang‐Wei Tu, et al.. (2016). Long term effects of low intensity pulsed focused ultrasound treatment with microbubbles on brain metabolism in a rat model.. 57. 1048–1048. 1 indexed citations

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Kovacs‐Balint, Zsofia, Paola Luciani, Patrick Roth, et al.. (2015). Blood-brain barrier opening-based local delivery of 80 nm-sized liposomes in mice using pulsed focused ultrasound. Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound. 3(S1). 2 indexed citations

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Kovacs‐Balint, Zsofia, et al.. (2014). Prolonged survival upon ultrasound-enhanced doxorubicin delivery in two syngenic glioblastoma mouse models. Journal of Controlled Release. 187. 74–82. 97 indexed citations

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Schulz, G. V., Marco Dominietto, Zsofia Kovacs‐Balint, et al.. (2014). Tumors in murine brains studied by grating-based phase contrast microtomography. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9212. 92120Q–92120Q. 2 indexed citations

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